Montana Businesses Support a Smith River Mineral Withdrawal; Does Yours?

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Montana Businesses Support a Smith River Mineral Withdrawal; Does Yours?

By Derf Johnson A number of Montana businesses are speaking up in defense of the Smith River and supporting a mineral withdrawal of the...

October 15, 2024

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An Opportunity to Protect the Smith

By Derf Johnson For over a decade, MEIC and our partners have engaged in a prolonged fight to prevent the Smith River Mine (aka the Black...

July 1, 2024

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Our Decisions Today Can Create a Better Tomorrow

By Cari Kimball Happy Summer, friends! I hope you’re finding ways to enjoy these long daylight hours. Isn’t July in Montana dreamy?  A...

July 1, 2024

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Hope Springs Early and Often

by Cari Kimball As Montana enters something resembling spring, I’m feeling energized by the lengthening daylight hours and looking...

March 29, 2024

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A Major Victory for the Smith River

By Derf Johnson After almost a decade of advocacy by our members, supporters, and partners, we’ve achieved an incredibly important...

June 5, 2022

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Smith River one step closer to protections from Black Butte Copper Mine after court ruling

The following is a press release from the Montana Environmental Information Center: Meagher County, MT – Montana’s Smith River moves...

April 11, 2022

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Derf Johnson, Scott Bosse, David Brooks: Why we don’t want a mine on the Smith: an open letter to Rob Scargill

By Derf Johnson, Scott Bosse and David Brooks, Billings Gazette Something doesn’t sit right with an Australian CEO living in Canada...

April 6, 2022

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Two Smiths in a Day

By Steve Gillbert Steve Gilbert on the Missouri River. In honor of Steve’s final term as an MEIC board member, we’re reprinting a story...

March 5, 2022

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Protect and enhance Montana’s economy: Don’t mine the headwaters of the Smith (Op-ed)

By William S. Broadbent, Sr. While not of the gun-slinging Wild West lore, there is a battle being waged in Montana. The future of the...

August 13, 2021

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Groups Challenge Copper Mine Proposal that Threatens the Smith River

Challenge aims to protect water quality, important trout habitat within the watershed MEAGHER COUNTY, Mont.— Conservation groups took...

June 4, 2020

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